Why you should expect to pay more tourist taxes – even though the evidence for them is unclear
May 09, 2024 07:09 am UTC| Insights & Views Business
In April 2024, Venice began its controversial experiment to charge day trippers 5 (4.30) to visit the city on some of the busiest days of the year. But its not just the lagoon city, with its 30 million visitors a year...
India election: how Narendra Modi’s BJP uses and abuses religious minorities for political purposes
May 09, 2024 07:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
If the pre-election polls are to be believed, Indias prime minister Narendra Modi, the leader of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP), is set to return to office for a third successive term when the result is declared on June...
AI may be to blame for our failure to make contact with alien civilisations
May 09, 2024 07:06 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
Artificial intelligence (AI) has progressed at an astounding pace over the last few years. Some scientists are now looking towards the development of artificial superintelligence (ASI) a form of AI that would not only...
May 09, 2024 07:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Politics
Since the start of the war in Gaza, Israel, Hezbollah and other armed groups in Lebanon have exchanged almost 5,000 attacks across the border. Lebanon is being pulled into a war it cannot afford. But the countrys weak...
A ‘sponge city’ may be your home in 2050
May 09, 2024 07:04 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Your home was probably designed for a climate that no longer exists. As long as humanity continues to burn fossil fuel, padding the heat-trapping blanket of gases in Earths atmosphere, the weather will become more...
Debunking myths about community housing: What governments and the public should know
May 09, 2024 07:03 am UTC| Insights & Views Real Estate
Canadas Housing Plan is pledging an ambitious multilateral approach to build more housing, faster and cheaper, for diverse groups. It includes noteworthy new funding programs and policies to preserve and expand...
OpenAI’s content deal with the FT is an attempt to avoid more legal challenges
May 09, 2024 06:08 am UTC| Insights & Views Technology
OpenAIs new strategic partnership and licensing agreement with the Financial Times (FT) follows similar deals between the US tech company and publishers such as Associated Press, German media giant Axel Springer and French...
South Africa’s plan to move away from coal: 8 steps to make it succeed
Germany lowers voting age to 16 for the European elections
IceCube researchers detect a rare type of energetic neutrino sent from powerful astronomical objects